American - President | February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
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I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
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